I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google (San Jose, CA) in Nov 2014
Interview
Two 45 minute interviews back to back using the phone and a google doc. After the employee referral, I was reached out to by a recruiter asking for answers to essay questions as well as my availability. Two weeks later I had my two interviews, and then another two weeks later I heard that I had gottten the position! The process was probably expedited by a competing offer I had.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Modified binary search of some kind.. Can't get too specific ):
I applied for the position online. A recruiter reached out and scheduled two back to back phone interviews. The first one was behavioral and included a code reading portion, and the second one was a technical coding question.
Short essay responses included with resume and then 2 back to back 45 minute interviews, both technical questions. Nothing very complicated (certainly not the level you get for the real software engineering internship) but they're still looking for smart people who absolutely know their stuff. It's important to review your computer science courses and understand fundamentals, but don't expect some crazy question from Leetcode to pop up.
I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Google
Interview
Applied online and heard back about two weeks later. There were two technical phone interviews, 45 minutes each. Interviewers were super friendly. The interviews were mostly technical, and the second interviewer asked a few questions about my resume.
